The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science write by Robert Viagas. This book was released on 2006-10-01. The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The editor of Playbill's At This Theatre and founding editor of the new Playbill Broadway Yearbook offers a collection of 26 essays on theatre by the top professionals in their fields. Includes contributions by two recently departed leading lights: playwright Wendy Wasserstein and songwriter Cy Coleman. Also, featured are Chita Rivera and Edward Albee; costume designer William Ivey Long; set designer Robin Wagner, and director and choreographer Susan Stroman.
Digital Theatre
Digital Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digital Theatre write by Nadja Masura. This book was released on 2020-10-21. Digital Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Digital Theatre is a rich and varied art form evolving between performing bodies gathered together in shared space and the ever-expanding flexible reach of the digital technology that shapes our world. This book explores live theatre performances which incorporate video projection, animation, motion capture and triggering, telematics and multisite performance, robotics, VR, and AR. Through examples from practitioners like George Coates, the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, Troika Ranch, David Saltz, Mark Reaney, The Builder’s Association, and ArtGrid, a picture emerges of how and why digital technology can be used to effectively create theatre productions matching the storytelling and expressive needs of today’s artists and audiences. It also examines how theatre roles such as director, actor, playwright, costumes, and set are altered, and how ideas of body, place, and community are expanded.
The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre
The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre write by Andy Propst. This book was released on 2019-09-09. The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Show Boat and Oklahoma! to Wicked and Hamilton, the musical is constantly evolving thanks to the contributions of some of theatre’s most prominent figures. Never have musicals been more popular than they are today. With live television broadcasts of shows like Rent and Hairspray and films like Mean Girls and Shrek being adapted to the stage, musicals—as well as the creators and artists who bring them to life—are at the forefront of popular culture. In 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre, Andy Propst profiles the individuals who have helped shape this beloved art form. Songwriting greats such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber are some of the familiar names in the book. So, too, are performers such as Nathan Lane, Ethel Merman, Audra McDonald, and Patti LuPone, and directors and choreographers such as Bob Fosse, Harold Prince, Jerome Robbins, and Tommy Tune. Readers learn not only about these men and women’s exceptional lives and achievements, but can peek backstage at such groundbreaking shows as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Company, and A Chorus Line, among others. Period reviews and interviews highlight both the shows and the people who contributed to them. The profiles in 100 Most Important People in Musical Theater provide a terrific history of musical theater, guiding readers from the era of operetta and the ascendancy of the book musical to the emergence of the concept musical and contemporary productions—from The Mikado and The Phantom of the Opera to Fun Home and Hamilton. This book is an invaluable addition to any musical theatre fan’s library, and will also appeal to researchers and scholars.
Direction
Direction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Direction write by Simon Shepherd. This book was released on 2012-12-17. Direction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is directing an art? Do directors need to be trained? What do directors actually do? These questions and more are answered in this accessibly written survey of the art of theatre direction. Its broad scope ranges across the theatres of both America and Europe, looking at practices from Stanislavski up to the present day.
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights write by Christopher Innes. This book was released on 2013-12-19. The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.
